MIT Anime Club Showing #499 Friday 15 June 2007 Summer Showing #04 2007 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Twelve Kingdoms 7-10 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 13-16 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 17-18 *********************************************************************** Contents: Paprika Showing at Kendall Cinema Geneon Sale Membership Forms Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer #04 2007 We're back with a fairly normal showing this week. We're continuing with Twelve Kingdoms and GitS:SAC as one might expect. We're not going to have a sampler this week so I guess you have the privilege of seeing more of the story of our semester series. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paprika showing at the Kendall Cinema Satoshi Kon's latest film, Paprika, is currently playing at the Kendall Square Cinema. Consult the theatre's website [1] for showtimes and ticket prices. The movie is subtitled, and is scheduled for screenings through at least June 21st. From our May 18 showing announcement: 29 year old, Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old "dream detective," code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people's dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis. At Atsuko's lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the "DC-MINI" has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy genius who is rather too fond of his food. Although this state-of-art devise could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer's personality while they are asleep. When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research, and simultaneously Dr. Tokita's research assistant, Himuro, goes missing, Atsuko suspects it's not a coincidence. Several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro's schizophrenic patients. Atsuko now knows for certain that the DC MINI is being used to destroy people's minds. She fears that not only will the government refuse to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy purposes when it becomes public, but whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose in mind. [1] http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Boston/Boston_Frameset.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Geneon Sale Rightstuf is having a really good sale. A sale good enough that We'd thought we'd tell you about it. Right now until June 27th choose from a select list of Geneon titles at Rightstuff at 4 or 5 dollars apiece. Specifically you can choose 10 titles for 50 dollars or 25 titles for 100. For more details and a complete list of titles go to http://www.rightstuf.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership Forms New membership forms are available for people who want to join or need to renew their memberships. Membership information (including a downloadable membership form) is online at: . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pizza: Note: We won't know for sure if pizza will be available until 8:10. Be prepared in case it doesn't happen. This week's pizza options: $1.50 Plain cheese $2.00 Pepperoni $2.00 Feta Cheese (this week; rotates) Future weeks will have: - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger - Bacon - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta Cheese ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Library The library is open again for checkouts for the summer. Our inventory is ongoing, so the cataloging of new acquisitions will be delayed a bit longer. If you are going to be returning any items from before May 20th, they are overdue. Be prepared to pay a late fee of $1 per item, cash or check made out to "MIT Anime Club". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence I would tell you not to talk during the showing but the brain hack will subdue the noisy ones anyway, so I don't think it's necessary. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Twelve Kingdoms (Juuni Kokki) 7-10 Our first summer series tells the story of Youko, a model student. The teachers at her new school mistake her for a slacker because they think her red hair is the result of dye, while her parents think her refusal to dye her red hair black is a sign of rebelliousness. That's bad enough, but lately she's been tormented by strange dreams that leave her with a sense of dread. The dreams turn to reality one day during a break between classes. An oddly dressed stranger confronts her in the classroom and implores her to accept his service. Before he can explain, the windows shatter and the school is under attack by monsters. Youko is herself possessed by a spirit that lets her wield a sword in defense. Within minutes Youko and two of her classmates find themselves swept away to another world, where the attacks continue, and their guide is separated from them. Alone in a strange world, will they be able to master their destinies? With character designs from Akihiro Yamada, character designer for RahXephon, and the voice talent of Aya Hisakawa as Youko. 9:20 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 13-18 We showed a sample of this series in the fall and we're going to show all of it over the summer. Most of the time we try to avoid popular US releases, as we believe they have enough exposure already, but this show is good and deserves to be shown in it's entirety. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the other variously cyber-enhanced members of Public Security Section 9 solve crimes and keep order with a combination of quick wits, hacking skills, and superior firepower. The TV series has a separate continuity from the movies or the manga, but includes all of your favorite characters, including AI mini-tanks like the manga's that didn't make the cut for the movie. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) You have received this message because you are on the MIT Anime Club's email list for showing announcements. For a change in your subscription, please send mail to anime-inquiry at mit.edu.